Thebigdrive is over. Many have asked thebigquestions: what was the best, the worst, was it dangerous, were you scared… So we thought we would put together a list. And it was fun, bringing back the good (and in a few cases not so good) memories. If you have the time, there is a country-by-country review below. Answers to the Big Questions

What was the best thing? Unanswerable, we have tried below.

Was it every unsafe? Never, ever, anywhere.

Was it scary? Only Sam’s 104-degree fever in Moshi, before the diagnosis.

Was it the trip of a lifetime? Nope. Absolutely amazing, but we have many other plans!

Any regrets?

Missed Niassa Reserve (northern Mozambique) way too slow

Missed Lake Turkana in northern Kenya because we had to wait for Ethiopian visas

Once again we saw no leopards

Our Recommendations for YOUR to do list:

Spend a month in Namibia, maybe more

Go to Ethiopia for Lalibela and Simian Mountains... but not in rainy season

Go see Egypt (and Sudan)... but not in the hot season

Do the Durban rope swing - more than once

See an elephant - up close - from a canoe

Avoid the most dangerous animal in Africa - the mosquito!

Travel with audiobooks - we suggest the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in five parts)

Take a four-month family holiday – more than once

Travel overland in Africa in a 4x4 with a roof top tent (very cool)

Visit Mozambique for Tofo beach, Gorongosa park, and the great vibe and great people of Maputo

And that is all. It has been a pleasure writing for you these last few months. I hope that you have enjoyed experiencing the awesomeness of Africa with us.

Peace out, SGMH

Country-by-Country: Best, Worst and Other Highlights South Africa: The Best Sam: the rope swing at the Durban stadium (see the video) Morag: visiting Qunu – Nelson Mandela’s home town Don: the hike at Cape Point on a glorious daySouth Africa: The Worst Sam – no space at his favorite hotel (Breakers) in Durban Morag – third failure attempting to visit Robben Island (Mandela prison) Don – failure of new heavy-duty rear spring failure three days into the tripSouth Africa: Other Highlights Visiting Cape Argulas – the true southern tip of Africa Staying with Jesper Morch and his amazing tuna and avocado salad Namibia: The Best Balloon ride over sand dunes of Sossusvlei to celebrate Sam’s birthdayNamibia: The Worst Sam – No water in the pool in Etosha Park and a long drive on his birthday Morag – The “second” flat tire Don – Salt spray from the Skeleton Coast that looked like a major oil leak Namibia: Other Highlights The sounds and smells of the 10s of thousands of seals at Cape Cross Sand boarding down the desert dunes & Sam landing his first ever jump The vastness of the landscape in Etosha National Park The ghost town and Kolmanskop & standing right where Brian Cox (physicist) did

Zambia: The Best Sam – The tandem rope swing with Dad at Victoria Falls Morag and Don – 4 days canoeing on the Zambezi river (dodging hippos)Zambia: The Worst Sam and Don – A tough drive from Lusaka to Lilongwe (after replacing tires) Morag – Skipping South Luangua Park because we were behind scheduleZambia: Other Highlights Seeing the movie X-Men: Days of Future Past in Lusaka Walking the knife-edge bridge in heavy mist to see Vic falls from Zambia side

Malawi: The Best Our night at Mumbo Island, an amazing Robinson Crusoe-like eco lodgeMalawi: The Worst Sam – Having to leave fun kids at Monkey Bay Morag – The sore backside from our “butt wrenching” adventure Don – A disappointing lodge on lake Malawi after the Nyika Plateau Malawi: Other Highlights The mountain bike ride on the Nyika plateau – Sam’s longest Dinner with Stuart Lane who happened to be in Lilongwe on our first night Tanzania: The Best The wildebeest migration – many tens of thousands, stunningTanzania: The Worst Sam – amoebic dysentery AND giardia in Moshi Morag – the terrible road, traffic, driving on road from Lusaka to Dar Don – standing traffic in the capital, Dar Tanzania: Other Highlights A medical clinic with good doctor and efficient lab on a Sunday in Moshi Seeing an amazing number of predators – particularly hyena Camping at Lobo in the northern Serengeti A Scottish pub and good camping in Lushoto (including a World Cup match) The doors of Zanzibar – see Morag’s amazing pictures Seeing Kilimanjaro Kenya: The Best Sam – Staying with Lisa and Johnson while we sorted out Ethiopian visas Morag – Tracing family history in Nakuru, where her parents were married Don – A glorious afternoon at the Naivasha Yacht Club with Meagan & family Kenya: The Worst The ten day wait to send passports back to Canada for Ethiopian visas Kenya: Other Highlights The bleak, almost lunar landscape north of Isiolo to Ethiopia Seeing the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction on the day it was released Dinner (seared tuna!) with Lisa and Johnson at Village Market Hanging for a couple days (including a sleepover) with Dylan A great afternoon at a rock climbing gym - thanks Johnson!

Ethiopia: The Best Sam - Myles and Caleb (at Lake Langano, in Addis, and at Lalibela)!! Morag – the hike to Hudad lodge on the plateau above Lalibela Don – the rock hewn churches of Lalibela, still in active useEthiopia: The Worst Sam - saying goodbye to Myles and Caleb Morag – getting side-swiped by tuk tuk in the rain and the mud north of Moyales Don - worst tar road of the entire 20k drive on two day drive north of MoyalesEthiopia: Other Highlights Lake Langano - great people - great location (thanks for letting us join!) Gondar – a cool town to hang in, though regret we did not meet Gandalf Seeing the Blue Nile falls - the start of one branch of the Nile river The amazing altitude, most of Africa over 2,000 meters is in Ethiopia Sudan: The Best Sam – The pool at the Greek Club in Khartoum – important when it is 45C Morag – The pyramids of Meroe and Jebel Barkal in Karima Don - Successfully getting the car onto the ferry from Sudan to Egypt Sudan: The Worst Sam – the 19th century damage to the pyramids and the old graffiti Morag - not finding sushi restaurant in Khartoum (despite hours of trying) Don: the stress of waiting for the vehicle barge and people ferry to EgyptSudan: Other Highlights Meeting Muammer (and his wonderful family) in Karima Meeting the guide in who accompanied the British guy walking the Nile Seeing the confluence of the Blue and White Nile in Khartoum Overcoming the challenges of summer heat and Ramadan / Eid holidays Egypt: The Best Sam – the pyramids and the amazing water park in Hurgada Morag – the temples and treasures of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings Don – seeing the ancient temples of Philae and the amazing museum in CairoEgypt: The Worst Sam and Don – The staggering heat – 45c and above! Morag – The taxi driver who would not stop and nearly suffered an injury! Egypt: Other Highlights Seeing Abu Simbel from the ferry at dusk Getting the car into Egypt / and out of Egypt Swimming in the cool water by the old Aswan dam & jumping off the boat Snorkelling in the Red Sea Sushi in Cairo

We landed in Canada on 21 August. It was good to be home. We got back into our old house and got all our stuff delivered (though not yet all unpacked). We saw my grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins. We met our great neighbours and I reconnected with good friends. Nice. I am in a new school working hard to make new friends - with some progress I am happy to report. So things here are good.

Canada is clean and orderly and easy. And there's lots of fun to be had. But I am already missing Africa. I miss the great weather (quite cold and some rain here in Ottawa). I miss the beaches, the snorkelling and the surfing. I miss our great friends from Mozambique (and good friends that have recently left Maputo for Manila, Rome, Washington and New York). I miss traveling to "House of Fire" in Swaziland - amazing music festival called "Bushfire". I miss the American School and the great teachers. I miss sushi and movies in Nelspruit. I miss zip-lining the canyons of South Africa. I miss Rachel (our housekeeper) and Americo (our cook). I miss Breakers hotel and the climbing wall in Umhlanga and the Ushaka water park in Durban. I miss tearing between houses with my Danish buddies on our street. I miss my tortoise "Tiny." I miss our big house and taking over the third floor for sleepovers and nerf gun battles. I miss gelato at Sommerschield park. I miss camping at the Elephant Reserve and in the Drakensberg mountains.

That is a lot to miss! But its not forever. Goodbye for now Africa - I'll be back!

But for now, pass me another box. Where can we put this? Has anyone seen my skateboard?

Ok we are clearly a bit behind in finishing our story, since I am writing about this a month after it happened, but anyway, I thought you would all like to know how it ended...

On 19 August 2014 we drove the last few hundred kilometres from Cairo to the port city of Alexandria. It was not one of our easiest days. We were tired and a bit stressed about getting the the paper work done to get the car shipped back to Mozambique.

But it was great to see the Mediterranean Sea - here is a picture of the three of us at the top of Africa! And beside that a photo of the end-of-the-drive kilometre reading on the GPS: 20,332.2 kms. Definitely a big drive.

For those geographers out there - while we did get to the very south of Africa (Cape Argulas) we did not get to the very northern tip of Africa - that would be Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia at 37°N. Alexandria is at 31°N. Each degree isabout 111kms - so the true tip would be another 700km further north. Getting there however would have been a very big challenge - requiring a drive across the highly unstable country of Libya. So you do what you can.

My Dad spent the day in Alexandria at customs getting the car ready for export. He last saw the Pajero at the customs hall (see pic below) from where it gets loaded into a container and onto a ship to go back to Mozambique.

We were sad to say goodbye to the car - it has served us very well. Happily, it will continue to transport adventurous travellers around southern Africa as it will soon be in the hands of our good friends Marike and Eric.

From Alexandria we we headed back by bus to Cairo. One more sleep (and a visit to the stunning Cairo Museum) and we were on a plane back to Canada.

By the way, if you have ever heard anyone talk about crazy traffic in Cairo, here's a photo to prove it. That was just one way - the other side also had eight jammed lanes most of the time. Although my friend Louis V says the traffic in Manilla is even more insane.

You gotta hand it to the Pharaohs. They may have lived in ancient history from our perspective, but they understood immortality. How to live forever, or as close as anyone has got since the dawn of time, or at least how to make it feel that way. You have to plan for the long term right from the start. Here's some of the things that helped the ancient Egyptians preserve themselves for three or four millennia.

1. Think BIG. Huge, even. You know how they say don't sweat the small stuff? Because it doesn't matter. Big stuff matters. It feels important and makes you look like you were important. It is also harder to hide and/or more likely to be found by people later in history even if some enemy or earthquake messes around with it in the meantime. The Karnak temple in Luxor covers two square kms, and was linked to the Luxor temple by a 3km avenue lined on both sides with sphinxes. Probably you could have seen it from space back in the day.

2. Have STAFF, or lots of loyal subjects, or even slaves. If you are thinking really big, it is obviously a good idea to have a lot of people working for you, voluntarily or involuntarily. The Obelisk of Hatshepsut at Karnak (the one on the right in the picture below) is 30m tall, weighs over 300 tons, and was built in a quarry in Aswan over 200 kms away. You try moving that without cranes. Boats help, but you still need a lot of people pulling and pushing. Definitely it helps to be King (which she was). Or think about the great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza, 146m high, which Egyptologists believe were constructed by a workforce of more than 20,000 people, probably farmers. Each of the blocks is as tall as me, and longer. And there are about 2,800,000 blocks just for that one pyramid.

3. Live in a VERY DRY PLACE. A desert is perfect. The Valley of the Kings has to be one of the most arid places on the planet. Sand can bury things and also preserve them. We saw amazing statues in the Luxor museum that were only uncovered in 1989 from the grounds of the Luxor Temple. The detail was incredible even though they were made in something like 1500 BC. Lack of moisture means stuff doesn't rot, like your papyrus, or yourself. The deterioration of the murals inside the tombs has mostly been caused by humidity introduced by people. They must have looked perfect when they were first discovered!

4. Don't be squeamish, love your MUMMY. If you want a body to last forever you have to get rid of all the messy bits. There is a Museum of Mummification in Luxor my friends. Check it out. If you really want details, do a search on mummification while on YouTube. Seriously. Feel free to try this at home. We saw Tutankhamen's mummy, displayed in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings (discovered by Howard Carter in 1922), and Ahmose I and what they think is Ramses I. Interestingly, the Ramses I mummy used to be held in a small museum in Niagara Falls, Canada (near where my dad grew up) until the late 1990s, when someone recognized the signs of potential royalty. After some research at a museum in Atlanta, the mummy was returned to Egypt in 2003. So you could say he's the Canadian mummy. You aren't allowed to take photos in either of these places, so the images below come from the internet.

5. Have help from the GODS. The Egyptians had lots of gods, and the gods could take many forms, and could co-inhabit mortal bodies. I learned a lot from reading Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles, which I really recommend to all my friends. Pharaohs usually claimed to be descended directly from the gods, and since the gods were known to be immortal, that boosted their claims also. Maybe that did help with preservation over all the centuries. The murals below showing Pharaos making offerings to the gods are all over 3500 years old. I guess someone was happy with the offerings.

A little while ago I wrote about life along the Nile river in Sudan - and how in northern Sudan anywhere that isn't beside the Nile is desert. In Egypt we have seen more of the same. Sadly we didn't have time to go explore the Western desert and visit oasis areas that were far from the Nile and may have proved my theory wrong. But here are some things I learned about life on the Nile:

1. The best way to travel is by boat. Pick your preference: sailboat (felucca), passenger boat with motor, a night-time party boat, a ferry or giant cruise ship? The Nile has it all.

2. Life cools down on the river. Which is important when it is 45 degrees outside. Believe it or not we actually found genuinely cold water to swim in close to the old Aswan dam. The best part: jumping from the boat's roof.

3. Life also slows down on the river. There is no reason to hurry. Or no option to hurry when the wind dies. Even the motor is no guarantee of progress, as we saw when our car barge broke down and took a day longer than anticipated to arrive from the Sudan.

4. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Which means that the east bank is for temples celebrating life, and the west bank is for memorial temples and tombs. I am not entirely sure what the rules are about islands.

We've come a long way in the past 100 days, driving 20,000kms through 10 countries. And along the way Sam has been amazing. Through thick and thin, Sam has been an great travel companion. It has been a rewarding experience. But it has not always been easy.

We have met far fewer families than we expected along the way, and so Sam has had relatively few kids to play with (hanging with Dylan in Nairobi and with Myles and Caleb in Addis were the much-enjoyed exceptions).

Sam was not able to bring much of his stuff along. Each of us could fill one of the boxes pictured here (50.5cm x 55cm x 22cm) including clothes and whatever else we wanted to bring along. Any souvenirs he wanted also had to fit in the same box.

We have slept in some pretty rough places (mostly in the Sudan), we have eaten some bad food (mostly in the Sudan), we have had some long driving days (mostly in Zambia) and driven some rough roads (the Nyika Plateau in Malawi, northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia). We have had some unmet expectations (the amazing pool in Namibia, lacking only water; or the great sushi restaurant that was "supposed" to exist in Khartoum; or museums with cool stuff to see that were closed for Eid or for renovations or for no obvious or communicable reason). We have had many many days without wifi, and some days without electricity (even during the soccer World Cup). Sam has battled stomach bugs, windy roads, sleepless nights, 45c heat, occasionally (but only rarely) stressed parents, obsessive picture-taking, and even the common cold. And he bounces back from all of it, makes do and even has fun with what there is around him, and gets interested in the next place.

So we wanted to say thanks. And we chose an all-inclusive water park resort on the Red Sea in Egypt as a way to do it. Below are some pictures of the place and the experience. Thanks Sam!

We have been stuck in between Sudan and Egypt for a week. First waiting for the barge to take our 4x4 along Lake Nasser from Sudan to Egypt, and then waiting to get the 4x4 through customs in Egypt. So maybe now is a good time to put up the map of the second half of the drive - from middle of Tanzania through Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan. Only Egypt to go now - and less than two weeks left in thebigdrive.

Sudan was hot. Really really hot, and really really sunny, and really really dusty and sandy. Except when it rained in Khartoum, but I’ll get to that later. The part of Sudan I was most interested in was the old stuff. I read that there are more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt. There are also lots of other ancient petroglyphs and monuments discussed in an excellent BBC documentary on Lost Civilizations that discusses ancient Sudan. Archeologists keep finding new ancient sites in Sudan. Some are as old as 7000 years. The unfortunate part is that many of the ancient sites in Sudan are not taken care of very well. At the Meroë Royal Cemetery they have done some rebuilding of monuments, or adding entrance chapels onto the old pyramids to show what they would have looked like originally. Here are some pictures from Meroë. We had a great camping site there with a direct view onto the pyramids. There were only two problems: it was too hot to sleep and fine sand dust kept getting blown into the tent all night long.

At lots of the other sites, the pyramids had lost most of their shape from people stealing the stones for building materials over many many centuries. Even in Meroë you could see a lot of graffiti on the pyramids, which made me pretty mad. In one way it is nice that places did not have big fences around them, and were just part of the desert as they had always been, but on the other hand things are getting trashed.

One of the best places we went was Karima. They have a big hill outside town called Jebel Barkal, which has temple and pyramid ruins all around it. It is one of the ancient sites discussed in the documentary I mentioned above. We were there at the end of Ramadan during the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, and practically the whole town comes out to climb the hill at sunset. It made for a very festive mood, but on the downside lots of people I didn’t know wanted to take my picture, and also lots of people were setting off firecrackers or blasting caps or something right at the edge of the hill or right at our feet sometimes. It is a 100m fall from up there so you don’t want anything making you feel jumpy!! Running down the sandy dune on the one side of the hill after the climb was the most fun part. It reminded me of Namibia.

In Karima we stayed at one family’s home and met some really nice people. Best of all was Muammer who spoke really good English and showed us around all the ancient sites. It was great to have him since there are almost no signs in English. We met his whole family and everyone was really welcoming and kind to us. Thanks Muammer – we will always remember you.

Flooding in the desert?As I hinted above, it wasn’t all sunshine in Sudan. When we were in Khartoum it was mostly cloudy and rainy (but still incredibly hot). I expected that with everything normally being so dry, the ground would just absorb the rain instantly, especially in the desert. But surprisingly this did not happen. Both in Khartoum and in the desert as we drove north, there was a lot of standing water even a day or more after the rains. It was so wet in one area that we cancelled going to some ruins where we were going to camp because we were worried the car would get stuck in the wet sand far away from any traffic that could help us.

One last word of thanks to the Greek Club in Khartoum. We went there every day to swim (you have to pay to use the facilities, but it was the only place we could get access to a pool). It was great in the hot sunshine and even in the pouring rain. And they made the best lemonade ever. So go there, if you are in Khartoum sometime.

My friends in Africa have a good idea what its like to cross a border on this continent, but those in Canada and Europe maybe not. Here’s what was involved to get into, and out of, Sudan. Getting In – 5 Easy Steps: 1. Get a letter of letter of introduction ($50) from Canadian High Commission in Nairobi 2. Go to Sudanese Embassy and give letter, passports, completed visa form and $50 one day; come back for the passport with visas the next day. 3. Arrive at Sudanese border: complete arrival form and get passports stamped in, get stamp in “carnet de passage” (see note at the bottom) 4. In the capital Khartoum, go to the airport for “foreigner registration” for $45. 5. In the capital Khartoum, do to a government office for the “travel and photography permit” – this one is free.

Getting Out – 7 easy steps First thing to know about crossing the border between Sudan and Egypt is that there is a beautiful new tar road. The second thing to know is that no one is allowed to use it!

So that means that you cross Lake Nasser from Wadi Halfa to Aswan (350kms) on a boat. But wait – actually two boats – one for the 4x4 and another for the people. Here is how it worked. 1. Arrive in Wadi Halfa several days before anything is supposed to leave because know one actually knows what day anything will happen. We got there on a Friday. We can debate whether that actually counts as a step… 2. Wait for the day that the vehicle barge is supposed to depart – for us it was supposed to be Saturday, but then it was Sunday until it was actually Monday. Meet other overlanders (if any) as they come into town to also wait for the barge and the ferry. We met motorcyclists Birgit and Rainer from Germany. They have been travelling for almost a year all over Africa - their blog is here, but I warn you it is in German so I can't read it. 3. My Dad went to the port with the car around 10:30 in the morning. The 4x4 was actually loaded onto the ferry and set sail at about 5pm. In between there was all the paper work (done by a “fixer” named Mazar). Fortunately it was only about 45 Celsius that day so it was no problem for my Dad to wait for all this to get done. 4. So the car is off, what about the people. Our ferry went on Tuesday. We got on the “bus” from the “hotel” at about 11:00am, then waited about an hour for 25 other people to cram in with babies and luggage for the 10 minute ride to the port with the ferry scheduled to depart around 4:00pm. 5. The ferry ride was 18 hours, but fortunately we had an air conditioned cabin. It was an experience! 6. Then we arrived in Egypt, got our visas and did all the paper work to get into the country. 7. But wait – where is the 4x4? Simple answer – engine breakdown on the barge so it limps into port three days after departure. Then we need to get it through customs (not yet done), register with the police and get new license plates (not yet done) and get on with thebigdrive (not yet done). Piece of cake. Here's some pictures.

UPDATE:

We are in Egypt, with the 4x4. I won't bore you with the details. But here are the highlights. It is 30km from the port to the city of Aswan. Some of the processing gets done at the port, some in the city. My Dad spent 14 hours sitting in government offices and driving between them over the course of two days to get all the stuff sorted out. I'd say that calls for two pieces of cake!

SGMH

What is a “carnet de passage”? In Africa, cars (like people) need a passport. The carnet is not just a document that get's stamped. It also is proof that you will exit with your car and not try to sell your car inside the country. How do they know? You have to deposit money in advance and you lose it if you don't have the stamp that proves you exited the country. How much of a deposit? For most of Africa it is 100% of the value of the vehicle. But for Egypt it is 200%! So we have had to put down a deposit of just over $20,000. When we return the carnet with all the stamps in AND stamps out, we get our money back. Now that is one document we don't want to lose.

One of our last stops in Ethiopia was in the town of Bahir Dar, on the shores of Lake Tana. We went there to see the source of the Nile (you can see the river’s outlet from the lake in the photo below left). Ok, technically it is only the source of the Blue Nile. The White Nile is much longer, with a source is somewhere way back in Rwanda/Uganda, but because it spreads out more through marshy areas, the White Nile actually loses 80% of its volume from evaporation, and the Blue Nile provides most of the water that flows through Sudan and Egypt. Now you know. There are quite a few dams on the Nile River, including just outside Bahir Dar where there are two power generation plants near the Blue Nile Falls, sending energy to Addis Ababa. Our local guide told us that the Blue Nile Falls is the second biggest waterfall in Africa after Victoria Falls. Ha! No comparison if you ask me, although if the full river volume was allowed over the falls it would be much wider than what you see in the photos below.

After seeing the outlet of the Nile, we caught up with it again in Wad Medani, Sudan, after spending a night in a village about 50kms before that town, camping outside this teacher’s house. It was interesting for me to learn more about how local people live. His house is the small one-room brick building you can see behind our car, which he shares with at least his three sons and maybe more of the people who came to shake our hands while we were there. I am not sure. Also, he has to share a simple latrine with many other families. It was really hot even at night, and I had a hard time sleeping in our rooftop tent, but I am sure it was probably even hotter in his house. It was still Ramadan when we were there, and I think it must be incredibly hard to fast and not even drink water all day in the summer in Sudan.

The next big river milestone was the confluence of the Blue and the White Nile, which we saw in Khartoum. I heard you can normally see the different colours of the two rivers as they join, but it was cloudy or rainy both times we went to the confluence, so it all just looked murky brown on both sides to me.

After we left Khartoum we followed the Nile north for a while, and then cut across the Bayuda desert and met up with it again at Karima. Then we crossed the Nubian desert and met up with it again in Dongola. Man, let me tell you in the desert there was NOTHING but sand and rocks and sand. We saw only a handful of houses, only a couple of people, and maybe only a dozen cars or busses both of the days when we drove across the desert. I have new appreciation for the word “deserted”. My dad was a little worried on those drives because if anything bad happened to the car it could take a long time to wait for help and would be nearly impossible to walk to find help. But nothing bad happened because we have a great car and my dad is an awesome driver.Whenever we met up with the Nile river, then you saw all the signs of life: green trees (especially date palms) and other growing crops, animals, people, and towns. It is like a long, winding oasis. Amazing differences, as you can see below. Now we are waiting to take a ferry up the Nile across Lake Nasser (Lake Nubia on this side). to Aswan in Egypt. Probably we will see more of the same contrasts there (my mum says it is a contrast between fertile and hostile).

Oh, and while I remember, there is an explorer named Levison Wood who is currently walking the Nile (from its White Nile source) – a total of 4250kms. He started more than 220 days ago. He goes about 35-40kms every day, even when the temperature outside is 40 °C. That is amazing and incredibly hard. We met a Sudanese man Moez Mahir) who had accompanied him while he was walking in Sudan, and he told some amazing stories. Mr. Wood is walking to raise awareness in the fight against poaching, especially elephants. You should look up his Facebook page or his website and support him. We were hoping to meet him along the way, but it may be he is too far ahead of us already, since he is already past Luxor and we are still in Sudan.